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Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, May 2021

22 mesoscale discussions in May 2021. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of mesoscale discussions reaches back to 2003.

Mesoscale Discussions by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
22
Busiest day
May 4, 20219 mesoscale discussions

Over time

By day

Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 4:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFayette, Greene, Hale, Lamar, Marengo, Pickens and 3 more64 min
May 2, 11:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColbert, Franklin, Marion2 hr
May 3, 10:38 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dallas and 7 more97 min
May 3, 4:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 38 more90 min
May 3, 7:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Bullock, Chambers, Coosa, Elmore, Lee and 4 more62 min
May 4, 7:31 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCJackson, Lauderdale, Limestone, Madison89 min
May 4, 8:33 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChoctaw, Clarke, Dallas, Greene, Hale, Marengo and 4 more117 min
May 4, 9:03 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Cullman and 20 more117 min
May 4, 2:17 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChoctaw, Greene, Marengo, Sumter88 min
May 4, 3:03 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay and 19 more117 min
May 4, 4:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 20 more89 min
May 4, 5:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Covington, Dale and 7 more85 min
May 4, 6:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Coosa, Elmore, Lowndes, Macon, Montgomery and 1 more65 min
May 4, 7:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarbour, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston and 2 more97 min
May 6, 5:11 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColbert, Cullman, Franklin, Jackson, Lamar, Lauderdale and 6 more94 min
May 9, 3:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDeKalb, Jackson, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan2 hr
May 9, 5:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone87 min
May 9, 9:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFayette, Greene, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Tuscaloosa and 2 more118 min
May 11, 1:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Clarke, Coffee and 15 more119 min
May 12, 6:43 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGeneva, Houston2 hr
May 12, 9:17 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHenry, Houston118 min
May 18, 4:17 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChoctaw, Sumter, Washington118 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.